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1  If you like politeness, you know where to get it.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
2  I am not going to begin to be polite now, about old Bounderby.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
3  She has lots of expensive knowledge, sir, political and otherwise.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
4  Body number two, said they must take everything on political economy.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII
5  I am not speaking to you politely; but, as you are aware, I am not polite.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
6  I am not speaking to you politely; but, as you are aware, I am not polite.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
7  Upon this, Mr. Childers politely betook himself, with his equestrian walk, to the landing outside the door, and there stood stroking his face, and softly whistling.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
8  She was polite, obliging, cheerful, hopeful; but, the more polite, the more obliging, the more cheerful, the more hopeful, the more exemplary altogether, she; the forlorner Sacrifice and Victim, he.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
9  They became exhausted in imitation of them; and they yaw-yawed in their speech like them; and they served out, with an enervated air, the little mouldy rations of political economy, on which they regaled their disciples.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
10  With the aid of a little more coaching for the political sages, a little more genteel listlessness for the general society, and a tolerable management of the assumed honesty in dishonesty, most effective and most patronized of the polite deadly sins, he speedily came to be considered of much promise.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
11  With the aid of a little more coaching for the political sages, a little more genteel listlessness for the general society, and a tolerable management of the assumed honesty in dishonesty, most effective and most patronized of the polite deadly sins, he speedily came to be considered of much promise.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII